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I Can Imagine A Lot



  If I were to ask you the length of the Mississippi River, you probably wouldn’t know the exact number. So, if I said just put it between two numbers, you might have a better chance. You might be willing to wager a bit of money on it. In fact, it is a bet you could never lose. Just pick one and an obscenely large number, and it would be technically between those two. Yet when researchers did this as an experiment, that is not what happened. People gave way closer numbers even if doing so gave them a higher chance to lose.     There is an interesting psychological effect here; we are quick to set lower limits than we have to.

  And it is also what we do with God.

  In Ephesians 3:20, Paul writes, “Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,” God can do far more than we can imagine, far more than we think, far more than we are willing to ask. Neither God’s love nor His power is limited by human imagination.

  So why are we setting limits on Him?

  It is sad how pessimistic and timid his people can get when it comes to what God can accomplish. And notice her that it is what is at Work “in us”.  Our can’t is not about can be done, but about what we are limiting it to be.

 Let's imagine a lot because God can do even more!

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